Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 
> At 9:25 PM 11/14/97, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> >"automount" and "bootable" with partitioning/formatting software. His
> >point was that Startup Disk CDeV however doesn't know partitions. It will
> >only let you choose the disk, which will then boot from the first
> 
> Lots of people seem to think this, so it was probably true for older
> versions of MacOS.  Currently (since at least 7.5.5) startup disk lists all
> partitions and lets you choose.
> 
> I have a single disk on my 7500 and three partitions (two bootable).
> Startup disk shows all three.  I routinely use startup disk to boot from
> the alternate partition when I want to run speed disk on my system
> partition.  (Lots faster than a floppy.)
> 
> Anyone know when this changed?  Is this related to MacOS, or to running a
> PowerMac instead of a 68k Mac?

I think it must have changed between 7.1 and 7.5.  My Startup Disk control
panel shows all partitions as well, but if I have a copy of 7.1 on one
partition and 7.5.5 on another partition on the same disk and choose to
boot off of the 7.1 partition, it'll boot off of the 7.5.5 partition
instead.  When I open up the Startup Disk control panel, all the
partitions on that disk are highlighted as well.  If System Picker works
the way I want it to, tho, it'll be nice.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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